Sorry, I don't normally ask that question, but seriously, are you? Do you seriously believe that somebody going to ITT tech has access to the same level of resources and instructors as someone going to MIT? Do you value education and educators that little? Do you not even know what the words "Teaching" and "Teachers" mean?
Christ, what is it with people who can't accept that they can get useful help from other people...
if we weren't about to elect Donald Trump & Mike Pence to the highest office in the land. Trump's already said his first order of business is to roll back the tighter rules Obama put through for the FDA and food safety. There was 8 years of constant outbreaks that more or less stopped when those rules went in. But they're bad for business so out they go.
Americans don't like experts. We don't like people telling us what to do and how to do it. I'm sorry, but that's just a fact. A study just showed that white Americans a. Blamed the weak job market on the gov't and b. Felt the gov't needed to do more to help them. These folks aren't thinking, they're feeling. So you'll forgive me if I don't want something like a nuke plant with a 50 year life cycle in my neck of the woods when I've got to worry about a few changes in political winds undoing all those regulations...
and the public is going to bail it out then either a) let it fail and then step in to blunt any damage (e.g. let the too big to fail banks go and then prop up the economy with subsidies) or b) if it's too big/risky necessary for human civilization don't privatize it in the first place.
What I'm sick and fucking tired of is paying $$$ in taxes every year and getting bugger all for it. I'm a socialist, not a kleptocrate. Don't just hand billions (trillions?) of infrastructure to somebody's brother in law under the thin guise of "Private industry is always more efficient". Public infrastructure should be just that: public.
Not that I'm disagreeing with him/her. I don't like Nuclear because America doesn't have the balls to properly regulate and punish businessmen who flaunt safety. The risks are too great. It's not NIMBY. Make it public run or show me you're willing to throw people responsible for lesser disasters like oil spills in jail for 10-20 years and we'll talk. Until then it'll be like always: privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
most of the US hates it when the US does it too. Our political system is, like most, set up to protect the rights of our ruling class. The working class, by and large, has little or no say in such matters. Poll Americans and outside of Jews who want us to keep protecting Israel there's very few who want us dabbling in the rest of the world's politics. Isolationism plays well and in a country as wealthy as ours would probably work. We'd have to give up cheap iPhones and beef up our Nukes (We'd need something like the hammer if Israel where we'd nuke the world into perpetual winter if China or India invaded. No, Russia's never going to have the resources to invade. Christ, we've got twice as many people...).
Anyway, point is we'd love to put a stop to this B.S.. If you wanna tell me how I can get my ruling class to do what I tell them (and maybe get my working class to stop caring about guns, gays & abortion long enough to notice economic issues) I'll get right on that...
Factory workers got protection because there were a lot of them and they formed Unions. Security breaches only hurt a few people and they're completely unorganized. Hell, when the mega corps got tired of safety they just moved the factories. If we let then weasel out of that we'll let then weasel out of this. Besides, Americans pride themselves on luck. The lucky ones will be fine.
And got Congress to pass a law making arbitration legally binding. SCOTUS just recently upheld it. You'll find a clause in the EULA of every service you use. You done got sold out again.
the commons that is. The air waves. If we don't feel Verizon is doing a good enough job shepherding them then I don't see any reason to leave them in charge (outside of outdated notions of ownership that ought not to apply to a natural resource like airwaves).
because the mega-corps who run the show want us to. They're afraid Europe, China & India will make their own Internet with blackjack and hookers and they'll have to spend money supporting their apps on 2 different internets. The internet isn't for porn, it's for offloading the cost of your corps communication infrastructure onto the taxpayer.
and not the foundation of the legal theory. Put another way, if I say out loud how nice it would be if somebody would shoot an enemy of mine when I know damn well someone in the audience is going to do it that's not "Free Speech". Should it be? I'm pretty sure the answer is 'No'. You don't get to incite people to commit crimes. But it's still speech. You're either going to draw the line or your not. But at some point I can probably find something abhorrent enough to you personally to get you to draw that line.
under the same banner as shouting fire in a theater? It's long since been agreed upon that the gov't can put reasonable restrictions on free speech. At this point we're just arguing over the definition of 'reasonable'. Preventing the existence of completely untraceable guns and the tech to make them seems 'reasonable' to me.
You can argue that point, you can even argue that I should be able to shout fire in that theater. But it's not fair to call the judge "activist" or declare the issue settled. In fact, at the moment it's pretty well settled against your line of reasoning.
half of an anti-trust violation is having a strong enough market position to abuse. Google has fairly strong competition with Firefox on Android. I primarily use FF Android because it's nearly as fast, displays the real page without me having to mess around and does a better job of displaying that real page. Tabs also work a lot better.
Now with Apple, who won't even let another company make a browser for iOS (any browser on iOS is really just a skin on Safari) and therefore has no competition you might have a point. But we don't like to speak ill of Apple around here. I think mostly because they're a godawful company that makes gadgets folks love and it's kinda like how you don't talk about how sausage is made at a barbecue...
Strip the useful components and send them over seas without the extra heavy metals that are ending up in some kid in Africa (or Flint, Mi's) water supply? Of course, that raises the one question nobody in America ever likes to answer: Who's gonna pay for it?
I mean, you're right about capitalism finding solutions. We'll dump it in the south (where our poor disenfranchised live) or in Flint, Mi. It's just more convenient to send it over seas. You don't have to listen to 60 minutes do an expose and you don't have to bother folding the corps you set up to give yourself plausible deniability.
What we are absolutely _not_ going to do is properly dispose of it. There's always an underclass you can shit on. If all else fails there are 5 little words that end any discussions about it: Whose. Gonna. Pay. For. It.
and I'll be darned if I know how they pulled that off. I haven't had time to work on it (various health problems combined with long work weeks) so it's still running the old style plugin and it still works.
They're there to get job training. Companies are tired of coddling your kids. They want workers to come out the door ready to go. They sure as hell aren't gonna pay to teach em...
that's why you do in politics. You also constantly try to dig up dirt. So far nobody's got any real dirt on Clinton. Meanwhile Bush Jr deleted 22 million emails. Nobody gives a damn about that and nobody gives a damn about this.
that there wasn't a safe way out of the Hazard zone outside of calling an Uber driver. A city like New York ought to have enough public transit to get people out and enough cops to respond to something like this to keep that public transit safe.
The problem was a lot of innocent people in a potentially dangerous area. The market didn't fix that. If anything it caused it (terrorists aren't terrorists for the sheer giddy joy of it. They're either loons who lack medical help or desperate people who've given up on life).
The "market" managed to airlift a few well off people out of harms way while ditching the poors. When socialists talk about market failures this is exactly what we mean. And don't give me some B.S. about limited resources. It's 2016 and a major metropolis lacks usable and safe public transportation for it's working class. That's not a resource problem, that's a human one.
So is the internet used to make their business possible. And the public airwaves (Cell Phones). Oh, and most if not all of the actual tech (e.g. the Expensive "Basic Science" that companies don't like paying for) was done on the public dime in Universities.
Screw Uber. They didn't build it. The only reason they exists is trillions of tax payer dollars paying for the infrastructure they use. Hell, I'll bet most if not all of their engineers were educated in public schools and Universities. They can make plenty of money providing a public service without gouging people. If they don't like that, let 'em build their own roads, their own Internet, stop using the public airwaves and stop hiring Engineers my tax dollars paid to educate.
to outsource to India or obtain cheap labor through work visas. That's why you see this pattern repeated so much. It's also why small business is the only real source of (net) job growth in most modern economies. You just can't compete with the likes of India, China and the Philippians. It's useless to even try...
you're not allowed to make less money this year then you did last year. At least not if you're a corporation. Nintendo has enough money to lose $250 million a year for the next 20 years and they were scared enough of their investors to make an endless runner for iOS...
We're backing the cable companies into a corner. The FCC is about to take away their exclusive set top boxes and 20 billion a year in revenue there. Netflix is attacking them on caps and ESPN is putting sports online.
It begs the question: what awful things these guys are gonna do to survive? They're not going to go quietly into that good night and we don't have the political will in this country to reign them in....
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Sorry, I don't normally ask that question, but seriously, are you? Do you seriously believe that somebody going to ITT tech has access to the same level of resources and instructors as someone going to MIT? Do you value education and educators that little? Do you not even know what the words "Teaching" and "Teachers" mean?
Christ, what is it with people who can't accept that they can get useful help from other people...
if we weren't about to elect Donald Trump & Mike Pence to the highest office in the land. Trump's already said his first order of business is to roll back the tighter rules Obama put through for the FDA and food safety. There was 8 years of constant outbreaks that more or less stopped when those rules went in. But they're bad for business so out they go.
Americans don't like experts. We don't like people telling us what to do and how to do it. I'm sorry, but that's just a fact. A study just showed that white Americans a. Blamed the weak job market on the gov't and b. Felt the gov't needed to do more to help them. These folks aren't thinking, they're feeling. So you'll forgive me if I don't want something like a nuke plant with a 50 year life cycle in my neck of the woods when I've got to worry about a few changes in political winds undoing all those regulations...
and the public is going to bail it out then either a) let it fail and then step in to blunt any damage (e.g. let the too big to fail banks go and then prop up the economy with subsidies) or b) if it's too big/risky necessary for human civilization don't privatize it in the first place.
What I'm sick and fucking tired of is paying $$$ in taxes every year and getting bugger all for it. I'm a socialist, not a kleptocrate. Don't just hand billions (trillions?) of infrastructure to somebody's brother in law under the thin guise of "Private industry is always more efficient". Public infrastructure should be just that: public.
Not that I'm disagreeing with him/her. I don't like Nuclear because America doesn't have the balls to properly regulate and punish businessmen who flaunt safety. The risks are too great. It's not NIMBY. Make it public run or show me you're willing to throw people responsible for lesser disasters like oil spills in jail for 10-20 years and we'll talk. Until then it'll be like always: privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
most of the US hates it when the US does it too. Our political system is, like most, set up to protect the rights of our ruling class. The working class, by and large, has little or no say in such matters. Poll Americans and outside of Jews who want us to keep protecting Israel there's very few who want us dabbling in the rest of the world's politics. Isolationism plays well and in a country as wealthy as ours would probably work. We'd have to give up cheap iPhones and beef up our Nukes (We'd need something like the hammer if Israel where we'd nuke the world into perpetual winter if China or India invaded. No, Russia's never going to have the resources to invade. Christ, we've got twice as many people...).
Anyway, point is we'd love to put a stop to this B.S.. If you wanna tell me how I can get my ruling class to do what I tell them (and maybe get my working class to stop caring about guns, gays & abortion long enough to notice economic issues) I'll get right on that...
Factory workers got protection because there were a lot of them and they formed Unions. Security breaches only hurt a few people and they're completely unorganized. Hell, when the mega corps got tired of safety they just moved the factories. If we let then weasel out of that we'll let then weasel out of this. Besides, Americans pride themselves on luck. The lucky ones will be fine.
And got Congress to pass a law making arbitration legally binding. SCOTUS just recently upheld it. You'll find a clause in the EULA of every service you use. You done got sold out again.
You must be one of Palmer's professional trolls.
the commons that is. The air waves. If we don't feel Verizon is doing a good enough job shepherding them then I don't see any reason to leave them in charge (outside of outdated notions of ownership that ought not to apply to a natural resource like airwaves).
because the mega-corps who run the show want us to. They're afraid Europe, China & India will make their own Internet with blackjack and hookers and they'll have to spend money supporting their apps on 2 different internets. The internet isn't for porn, it's for offloading the cost of your corps communication infrastructure onto the taxpayer.
and not the foundation of the legal theory. Put another way, if I say out loud how nice it would be if somebody would shoot an enemy of mine when I know damn well someone in the audience is going to do it that's not "Free Speech". Should it be? I'm pretty sure the answer is 'No'. You don't get to incite people to commit crimes. But it's still speech. You're either going to draw the line or your not. But at some point I can probably find something abhorrent enough to you personally to get you to draw that line.
under the same banner as shouting fire in a theater? It's long since been agreed upon that the gov't can put reasonable restrictions on free speech. At this point we're just arguing over the definition of 'reasonable'. Preventing the existence of completely untraceable guns and the tech to make them seems 'reasonable' to me.
You can argue that point, you can even argue that I should be able to shout fire in that theater. But it's not fair to call the judge "activist" or declare the issue settled. In fact, at the moment it's pretty well settled against your line of reasoning.
Don't forget to go to View-> Toolbars -> Menu Bar. There, now you don't even have to press Alt.
half of an anti-trust violation is having a strong enough market position to abuse. Google has fairly strong competition with Firefox on Android. I primarily use FF Android because it's nearly as fast, displays the real page without me having to mess around and does a better job of displaying that real page. Tabs also work a lot better.
Now with Apple, who won't even let another company make a browser for iOS (any browser on iOS is really just a skin on Safari) and therefore has no competition you might have a point. But we don't like to speak ill of Apple around here. I think mostly because they're a godawful company that makes gadgets folks love and it's kinda like how you don't talk about how sausage is made at a barbecue...
Strip the useful components and send them over seas without the extra heavy metals that are ending up in some kid in Africa (or Flint, Mi's) water supply? Of course, that raises the one question nobody in America ever likes to answer: Who's gonna pay for it?
I mean, you're right about capitalism finding solutions. We'll dump it in the south (where our poor disenfranchised live) or in Flint, Mi. It's just more convenient to send it over seas. You don't have to listen to 60 minutes do an expose and you don't have to bother folding the corps you set up to give yourself plausible deniability.
What we are absolutely _not_ going to do is properly dispose of it. There's always an underclass you can shit on. If all else fails there are 5 little words that end any discussions about it: Whose. Gonna. Pay. For. It.
and I'll be darned if I know how they pulled that off. I haven't had time to work on it (various health problems combined with long work weeks) so it's still running the old style plugin and it still works.
They're there to get job training. Companies are tired of coddling your kids. They want workers to come out the door ready to go. They sure as hell aren't gonna pay to teach em...
I feel a great Disturbance in the Force. As though millions of travelers cried out and were suddenly trolled.
In the meantime Tucson, Az is a fabulous place. Don't believe that Hamlet guy.
that's why you do in politics. You also constantly try to dig up dirt. So far nobody's got any real dirt on Clinton. Meanwhile Bush Jr deleted 22 million emails. Nobody gives a damn about that and nobody gives a damn about this.
that there wasn't a safe way out of the Hazard zone outside of calling an Uber driver. A city like New York ought to have enough public transit to get people out and enough cops to respond to something like this to keep that public transit safe.
The problem was a lot of innocent people in a potentially dangerous area. The market didn't fix that. If anything it caused it (terrorists aren't terrorists for the sheer giddy joy of it. They're either loons who lack medical help or desperate people who've given up on life).
The "market" managed to airlift a few well off people out of harms way while ditching the poors. When socialists talk about market failures this is exactly what we mean. And don't give me some B.S. about limited resources. It's 2016 and a major metropolis lacks usable and safe public transportation for it's working class. That's not a resource problem, that's a human one.
So is the internet used to make their business possible. And the public airwaves (Cell Phones). Oh, and most if not all of the actual tech (e.g. the Expensive "Basic Science" that companies don't like paying for) was done on the public dime in Universities.
Screw Uber. They didn't build it. The only reason they exists is trillions of tax payer dollars paying for the infrastructure they use. Hell, I'll bet most if not all of their engineers were educated in public schools and Universities. They can make plenty of money providing a public service without gouging people. If they don't like that, let 'em build their own roads, their own Internet, stop using the public airwaves and stop hiring Engineers my tax dollars paid to educate.
to outsource to India or obtain cheap labor through work visas. That's why you see this pattern repeated so much. It's also why small business is the only real source of (net) job growth in most modern economies. You just can't compete with the likes of India, China and the Philippians. It's useless to even try...
you're not allowed to make less money this year then you did last year. At least not if you're a corporation. Nintendo has enough money to lose $250 million a year for the next 20 years and they were scared enough of their investors to make an endless runner for iOS...
We're backing the cable companies into a corner. The FCC is about to take away their exclusive set top boxes and 20 billion a year in revenue there. Netflix is attacking them on caps and ESPN is putting sports online.
It begs the question: what awful things these guys are gonna do to survive? They're not going to go quietly into that good night and we don't have the political will in this country to reign them in....